Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the
development of pragmatic markers in English, from hwaet in Old
English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just
saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the
syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically
examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to
conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to
parenthetical. The book sets case studies within a larger
examination of the development of pragmatic markers as instances of
grammaticalization or pragmaticalization. The characteristics of
pragmatic markers - as primarily oral, syntactically optional,
sentence-external, grammatically indeterminate elements - are
revised in the context of scholarship on pragmatic markers over the
last thirty or more years.
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